cloning

            
             The topic of cloning has been in much debate in recent times. It is a very controversial issue, which contains many different and assorted viewpoints. While some find the procedures and actions concerning cloning acceptable, others object to it on a basis of saying it is evil and immoral. Many of those who raise objections are those who find it inappropriate for religious reasons. In both cases, an important concern is the possibility of abuse of this knowledge. One of the frequently asked questions is, "Where will all of this stop?" It may start by just experimenting and studying, but then what comes next? Will it become part of our everyday routine to start producing human bodies for spare parts? Will those created "individuals" be actual people in society? Who can honestly say? No one can be sure exactly where all of this cloning leads or where it will exactly stop. The possible benefits for society are far greater than the problems; therefore, cloning should be legal. .
             To the society of today, the term cloning can be expressed in several different ways. One such way would be to describe it as "playing God." Another would be to describe it as an act of making spare parts for the world. Society would describe cloning as the ability to harvest eggs by false reproduction (Cloning 3). Must cloning be considered to be such a barbaric act? Despite such accusations, the scientific world describes cloning as a medical technique, which produces monozygotic (identical) twins or triplets (Nash 60). In other words, it duplicates the process that nature itself uses to produce twins or even triplets. It is a process in which one or more cells are removed from a fertilized embryo and encouraged to develop into one or more duplicate embryos. Twins or triplets are thus formed with identical DNA (Nash 61).
             It seems that every week, newspapers report on new advances in the science of cloning.